The Baha'is of Egypt have been subjected to persecution and systematic oppression. While their quest for equality has been finally heard by many of their fellow citizens, there remain challenges and obstacles to the implementation of laws intended to grant them their full civil rights and equal opportunity in their society. With the emergence of the new Egypt, they seek to be given the opportunity to actively engage in rebuilding their nation.

Monday, December 04, 2006

The email below was sent to me with its author's permission to publish it in its entirety. Also more posts appeared on Egyptian blogs and websites such as the ones linked HERE & HERE.Another extensive article was written by the Egyptian journalist Mr. Nabil Sharaf el-Din and published in Elaf, a prominent daily electronic newspaper on 3 December 2006. It is accompanied with several comments from its readers, and can be seen HERE....

We hope that international recognition of this case might effect the court's decision, like it has been influenced many times before by the presence of fanatic Islamists. And I wish that all the activists that are currently present in Egypt to head to court next Saturday to make a clear statement to the Egyptian government and fanatic religious groups and organizations.

The case of the Baha'is and religious minority rights crucially effects the status of liberalism in all of Egypt which is a need for the whole world, I hope that we all support this issue.

I'd like also to say that about your webpage.But about the subject of this post. It's obvious if our fellow citizens (muslim or christians) see us like good neighbours they will defend us. They don't need to be Bahá'ís to defend our freedom ou dignity.In the same way I beg the Bahá'is to have not prejucies against other religious groups.Now we are seeding but we don't how will be the harvest.

Joao, As you well know, the Baha'is are required to live in harmony with--and respect for--their fellow human beings from the various religions, races and backgrounds regardless of the way others feel about the Baha'is. This has also been clearly the practice all along, and not just words.

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“All the Prophets of God,” asserts Bahá’u’lláh in the Kitáb-i-Íqán, “abide in the same tabernacle, soar in the same heaven, are seated upon the same throne, utter the same speech, and proclaim the same Faith.” From the “beginning that hath no beginning,” these Exponents of the Unity of God and Channels of His incessant utterance have shed the light of the invisible Beauty upon mankind, and will continue, to the “end that hath no end,” to vouchsafe fresh revelations of His might and additional experiences of His inconceivable glory. To contend that any particular religion is final, that “all Revelation is ended, that the portals of Divine mercy are closed, that from the daysprings of eternal holiness no sun shall rise again, that the ocean of everlasting bounty is forever stilled, and that out of the Tabernacle of ancient glory the Messengers of God have ceased to be made manifest” would indeed be nothing less than sheer blasphemy.

“They differ,” explains Bahá’u’lláh in that same epistle, “only in the intensity of their revelation and the comparative potency of their light.” And this, not by reason of any inherent incapacity of any one of them to reveal in a fuller measure the glory of the Message with which He has been entrusted, but rather because of the immaturity and unpreparedness of the age He lived in to apprehend and absorb the full potentialities latent in that Faith.(Shoghi Effendi: The World Order of Baha'u'llah)